Quality of life measurement in women with cervical cancer: Implications for Chinese cervical cancer survivors

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Volumn 8, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Zeng, Ying C ^a   Ching, Shirley S Y ^a   Loke, Alice Y ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BODY IMAGE; CANCER PAIN; CANCER REHABILITATION EVALUATION SYSTEM SHORT FORM; CANCER SURVIVOR; CHINESE; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; EUROPEAN ORGANIZATION FOR RESEARCH TREATMENT QUALITY OF LIFE QUESTIONNAIRE; EUROPEAN QUALITY OF LIFE SCALE 5 DIMENSIONS; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT OF CANCER THERAPY; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; MEDICAL OUTCOME STUDY QUESTIONNAIRE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL STRESS; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE INDEX; REVIEW; ROLE STRESS; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SHORT FORM 36; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TEST RETEST RELIABILITY; UTERINE CERVIX CANCER; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION QUALITY OF LIFE BRIEF; ARTICLE; HEALTH SURVEY; MALE; PROSTATE TUMOR; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD;

HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 79958711091     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777525     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7525-8-30     Document Type: Review

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